to do...

Clean my room...seems like it never stays clean for some reason or another.

Do step two (day four) of my bread...it's growing! :D

Read/watch Tastefully Simple stuff for my party on Saturday

Start drawing/sketching again

Find a passage (in the Bible) to begin memorizing....any ideas?

Maybe get a car wash so that it will rain

Get my tires checked

Read more of The Great Divorce to myself, and to dad (I'm recording it for him so that he can listen to it)

Finish some books. Yes, now there's an idea!


Well, that's a start anyway.

Hannah just made me some espresso....*happy sigh*

From my earlier list I've:

Maybe get a car wash so that it will rain

Get my tires checked

Wow, that looks pathetic! But then I also worked from 6:30 to 12:00, so that's got to count for something. I've started on my room though, I found that I still do have a desktop, and now have room for my feet under my desk once again. :)

I haven't decided yet on a Scripture passage to memorize yet, I'm thinking along epistle lines. Philippians was suggested, anyone else have a passage that has really meant a lot to them, either because of putting it to memory, or just reading it a lot?

I got Casting Crowns' new album, Lifesong today!

And just for the record...I don't know what it is with me and cars, but as many times as I fuel it, or look under the hood, I can never remember what side of the car the gas cap is on, or where in the world the latch is under the hood. Is this a girl thing?

Ok, I should stop procrastinating....

Bread dough as art and a living thing.

Pain de Campagne
Country-Style French Bread

Day 4
The first refreshment

3/4 cup whole wheat flour
2 Tablespoons chef from the previous step
1/3 cup warm water

For the first refreshment, remove the outer crust of the chef and use a piece of the moist dough that is the size of a large walnut (about 2 Tablespoons).
Pour the flour onto the workbench and make a fountain. Break up the chef into little pieces and place it in the middle of the fountain. Pour in the warm water; stir and work the chef with your fingers until it is completely dissolved. Then, with several fingers of one hand, start pulling in some of the flour to make a paste in the middle of the fountain. Gradually work in most of the flour. You will see that the dough becomes more and more active as it is worked. Use the dry hand with some of the remaining flour to clean off the mixing hand and incorporate every little bit into the dough, which is now called levain.
If the levain will not take all the flour, you can leave out a Tablespoon or two. If the levain is too moist and does not come together as dough, add a little flour, a teaspoon at a time.
We describe the final dough as "firm," but it should not be too dry. Rather it should be moist and feel sticky and should stand up in a little ball and spring back when touched.
Let the levain rise in the container, covered with a damp cloth, for between 18 and 24 hours. When ready the levain will have noticeably risen and fallen a little. It will still have a pleasing, alcoholic aroma. Inside it will be inflated with tiny bubbles.



Stay tuned for Day 5, Tuesday morning!

Because Katherine did it...

[Poll #573720]

And check out how a sweet friend explains for me why I love LJ.

Edit: I've gotten such great answers so far, maybe I'll use them in my bio...*grin*

(no subject)

I want more Hailie icons. She's perfect for them. So. I need to figure out all the moods I need from her...one that I've noticed the most that I need is just a plain old smiley one (though for Hailie, a smile is never plain, and never, ever old). Any other suggestions from the choir?

P.S. why can't you upload more than one userpic at a time?